[mythtv-users] 'Failed to Delete File' from within Video Library

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu May 30 02:36:42 UTC 2013


On 05/29/2013 10:12 PM, Jeremy Jones wrote:
> I recently started downloading a few video podcasts (Everything 
> perfectly legal).  The video file is placed in a folder in my video 
> library so that I can watch them from myth.  When I finish watching 
> one, I would like to be able to delete it.  When I tried by pressing 
> 'd' I first get a prompt, "Are you sure you sure you want to 
> delete:..." Upon selecting 'OK' I get a second message informing me, 
> "Failed to delete file".
>
> I have checked the permissions and I don't see a problem.  I tried 
> changing the parent folder's owner to 'mythtv' as well as all the 
> files.  I can delete the file from within thunar using the same user 
> that runs mythfrontend.

It's mythbackend that does the deleting when you use Storage Groups.

Mike


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